Portuguese Grammar Tips: Should, Would & Could

Portuguese Grammar Tips: Should, Would & Could // Want to learn Portuguese? Confused by Portuguese grammar? In this video I show you how to form sentences using the words should, would and could. This will make learning Portuguese easy and fun! Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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[TalktheStreets]

Which other verbs do you find confusing?

[Diversusmilitary]

As a portuguese citizen I say: quality work right there! Your teaching is accurate which is the best I’ve seen so fare by hundreds of miles. Continue with your good work! 🇵🇹🇬🇧

[baldacini]

I'm Brazilian why am I watching this?! 😂 But as a native portuguese speaker I should say: this video content is super accurate and with high quality. Keep it up teacher!

[joaninha]

Seriously, this is the best channel for European Portuguese. You explain things so clearly. Do you have a video on how and why you learnt Portuguese? ❤️

[Thegreatflyingjelly]

Tuas explicações são fantásticas!!!🇧🇷💛💚

[thomasrfrench]

This particular video leads me to think that I need to take a course in grammar terminology. Imperfect, infinitive, participle? Haven't visited these words in decades.

[OphirYahav]

Crystal Clear. ("claro como cristal"?). Thanks a lot.

[_zedejose]

I'd like to humbly add a small caveat regarding the actual, *spoken* variants of some sentences, since we (the portuguese) tend to simplify imperfects, to avoid sounding *too* formal. So:

- "Podias fechar a janela?", for instance, is mostly used in the present, i.e. "Podes fechar a janela?" (and, yes, those can curiously *also* express two different levels of "tu"-formality ("Podias" is more formal)
- "O que farias com 10 mil euros? Compraria um carro." absolutely correct, but what you'll actually hear is "O que *fazias* com 10 mil euros? *Comprava* um carro" (and not meaning to add to the confusion, but when using "o que fazias", it is generally spoken as "o que é que fazias...")

Sorry, and thank you again for making me realise how confusing my own language can be...

[shanec.]

Oh good Lord so many things to learn😭 thank you so much Liz for this vid! Please don’t get tired of teaching us...🥺

[alexandratyers]

As suas aulas são incríveis, muito obrigado!

[giselabotha]

Liz, your way of articulating the Portuguese language is just awesome and fun, takes away some of the stress haha. You inspire and give hope... I can and will get there! Looking forward to being part of the Portuguese Pro group at the end of the month... praying and keeping my fingers and toes crossed for my application to be successful XD!

[geoffreyphoenix]

Muito, muito útil e mais importante claro! Obrigado, eu vou partilhar com os meus amigos.

[chorseundgrd]

This is so helpful thank you so much! Your videos are amazing and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for breaking down the grammar in fine detail, that's one of the things I was searching for and you do it perfectly!

[clarissafernandes]

Muito bom explicação de palavras 👍 queria mais vídeos sobre verbs, se faz favor 😊

[annalanickova]

Obrigada Liz, isso era o que eu precisava ❤️

[elainemcguirk]

Every time I watch one of your videos, another penny drops . Many thanks Liz.

[stephannieschapiro]

Oh Liz thanks. Today you helped me with poder and conseguo! I get it now. Ir is like May I and I can.
Thank you so much! You are a super star

[alavitabusinesssolutions]

SWC! - SO succinct Liz - (and the text enhancement really works well!)

[glennover]

Love these short, relevant, helpful tutorials. Most of us learn much better when we can "break it down" into small chunks.

[ev-yt]

This is very helpful. I never know what to do with should, would, and could. Obrigado.